Information about the object:
"The Lviv Yearbook" provides an opportunity to publish the achievements of 30 years of social activity of the Lviv Institute, including the history of the South-Eastern Borderlands, especially Lviv. It is a source of information about the lives of the former inhabitants of these lands and the Poles currently living within the borders of Ukraine. This year the Yearbook has been expanded to include a new section entitled "Sources for the History of Lwów and the Borderlands". Thus, the content layout of the Yearbook 2021 will be as follows:

Completed works:
The project is a continuation of the "Lviv Yearbook" published since 1991. "Lviv Yearbook 2021", while retaining the current uniform graphic design and content layout, will be expanded to include a new, extremely important section - "Sources for the history of Lviv and the South-Eastern Borderlands". This will be a publication of rare source documents, often located abroad or not known at all, which is of great importance for scientific research as well as for the creation and implementation of programmes "for the protection of Polish national heritage abroad". Among other things, the "Lviv Yearbook 2021" will publish a unique document found by the staff of the Lviv Institute - "A German Account of the First Soviet Occupation Period 1939-41" - as well as documents, diaries and family photographs of the Bielecki, Kruczkowski and Feldman families related to the history of the Grand Theatre in Lviv.

The result of the task is to gather research material for scholars and students dealing with the topic of "cultural heritage of the borderlands", as well as to familiarise a wider circle of those interested in this topic (the "borderland" community) with the connections of Lviv and the borderlands with the history of the Polish nation, and, above all, with the influence and significance of Lviv's science and culture for the contemporary image of the state and nation. In the first section, among others, Prof. A. Redzik will remind us of the role of Lwów lawyers in building the foundations of the state system of the Second Republic, Prof. U. Sowina the history of the Lviv waterworks (one of the most modern in Europe), which were repaired in the 21st century by Polish specialists from Silesia, and Ukrainian historian Yuriy Smirnov will continue the series "History of Churches in the Borderlands". An excellent historical curiosity is Professor Janusz Pezda's article on the "leopolitans" in the Polish Library in Paris. In the second section, among others, Dr Mariusz Olbromski will present a profile of Archbishop Marian Jaworski (of great merit for the protection of Polish heritage in Lvov), and Bogdan Kasprowicz will present "The History of the Grand Theatre", based on diaries and family photographs. In the third section, an extraordinary "treat" - a document found in the archives and never before published - is the "German Account of the First Soviet Occupation of Lviv". The fourth section contains information about the extremely rich and important activities of the Society of Lovers of Lviv and the South-Eastern Borderlands in terms of saving the "Kresy heritage", and an equally important account by teacher Krystyna Krasnopolska about Polish Saturday schools in Ukraine. In the fifth section, reviews, including a continuation of the series "Silva rerum" by Maciej Miśkowiec, reviews of books - "Lviv trams 1880- 1944" - Szajner and Rechlowicz, "Dada, Iłła, Kika" - by Ewa Daszewska on the Lviv connections of the Iłłakowicz and Daszewski families, "Kochany Lwów" - by Dr. Andrzej Szteliga, etc. The qualitative outcome of the project was ensured by the participation of outstanding authors - prominent scholars who are recognised authorities in research work on the history of the Kresy, and the equally outstanding composition of the editorial board headed by Dr. Krzysztof Smolana. The search for, publication and analysis by specialists of source documents at home and abroad will undoubtedly be of paramount importance for further scientific research work in the field of 'the protection of Polish cultural heritage abroad.

Funding: Programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Protection of Cultural Heritage Abroad".

More about the project: https://polonika.pl

• Instytut Lwowski Fundacja Ochrony Dziedzictwa Kulturowego Kresów Wschodnich, realizacja w roku 2021.